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Lädt ... Slaves of the Volcano Godvon Craig Shaw Gardner
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Another good piece of work from Gardner (after his Wuntvor the Apprentice fantasy series) themed around B-movies. He conjures up another memorable cast of characters for this story - though there are some flickers of similarity to the Wuntvor books, that's all they are. I found the story interestingly unpredictable, though as with Wuntvor, Roger's slowness-on-the-uptake sometimes grates; however, what Gardner's doing is clearly throwing a hint to the audience so we can see and appreciate what's going to happen. A fun, easy-to-read book and I immediately started on the sequel. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Roger Gordon's life was dull until a Captain Crusader Decoder Ring unlocked a door to the world of B-movies. Now his life is filled with adventure as he frolics through the silver screen's weirdest westerns, thrillers and romances. Reissue. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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It's saved me a whole lotta wasted time.
But this one? It's weird, because I know I've read far, far worse writing. But just four pages in, by the end of the very first scene, I closed the cover and put the thing down. I will never pick it up again.
So I'm declining to even rate a book I finished something like a paltry 2% of.
What was so offensive, or so off-putting about these few pages? It comes down to a few things. I knew going in this would not be a fantastic book, but I had hoped for some chuckles, some unselfconscious turns to the reader and winking, whatever. Instead, in the first four pages, I had a guy holding a gun to another guy. That was it. He showed up, held the gun, told the guy not to talk and not to move, then after four pages of navel-gazing by both characters, all of which did its level best to be wry and sardonic but came across flat and unamusing, the gun holder disappeared.
Technically, I guess it set up a story question, but it was one that I simply didn't give a shit about, and the thoughts of another 200 pages of flat, unamusing pseudo-sardonic, faux-wry writing for a story that I already know wasn't going to be stellar? Nope.
I didn't come for the story. I came for some fun. And those first four pages were the opposite of fun.